Today, a reward is set at $50,000 in GREENVILLE, TEXAS to find those responsible for the murder of the extremely rare and sacred white buffalo named Lightning Medicine Cloud born last year, found dead and skinned along with his mother, Buffalo Woman... Killed and slaughtered before the special, beloved white buffalo reached his first birthday. Murders took place while the Little Soldier Family was out of town in Oklahoma City. http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/white-buffalo-and-mother-killed-in-texas.html

Lightning Medicine Cloud, born May 12, 2011 on a stormy night at the Lakota Ranch in Greenville Texas, was a natural white buffalo—an extremely rare occurrence, happening an estimated once per ten million births. In June, a naming ceremony attracted over 2,000 visitors to the ranch, and a report on the proceedings cited beliefs held by some Lakota that the calf was the third white buffalo ever, and the first male in 150 years. Such a white buffalo is tied to the story of White Buffalo Calf Woman, and is the most sacred animal, perhaps the most sacred thing on the planet, to the Lakota people.

In March, the discovery that a ranch in Hunt, Texas offered the chance to kill a white buffalo for $13,500 sparked outrage in Indian country. A day after the news broke, the owner of the ranch told Indian Country Today Media Network that he would cease offering the white buffalo hunt. The buffalo being killed at that ranch and others, like those being born on a ranch in Bend, Oregon, are not natural white buffalo—as an expert told ICTMN in March, knowledge of genetics has allowed modern breeders to engineer white bison.

The annual Greenville Scholarship Native American Powwow, which was traditionally held in late January, had been moved to the weekend of May 11-12 and called (perhaps unofficially) the First Annual Lightning Medicine Cloud Powwow in the buffalo calf’s honor.

Any donation for Lightning Medicine Cloud's reward fund can be made through the website "Donate" button, OR to the Alliance Bank at 6609 Wesley St., (P. O. Box 8099), Greenville, TX 75404-8099. The phone number is 903-453-6201 and may speak to customer service for depositing money and/or transferring money.

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Mayor and City Council.

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We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens who ask that you help find those responsible for the murders of the White Buffalo named, Lightning Medicine Cloud and his mother, Buffalo Woman and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

In early March, a site offered a White Buffalo Hunt Package advertising a chance to kill a Sacred White Buffalo in Texas for $13,500.

Today, a reward is set at $50,000 in GREENVILLE, TEXAS to find those responsible for the murder of the extremely rare and sacred white buffalo named Lightning Medicine Cloud born last year, found dead and skinned along with his mother, Buffalo Woman... Killed and slaughtered before the special, beloved white buffalo reached his first birthday. Murders took place while the Little Soldier Family was out of town in Oklahoma City. http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/white-buffalo-and-mother-killed-in-texas.html